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Cast member from Georgia in MTV’s ‘16 and Pregnant’ arrested for involuntary manslaughter

Tranq Tranq is slang for the animal tranquilizer xylazine, which is being laced in drugs. (UNC DRUG CHECKING LAB)

FLOYD COUNTY, GA — A cast member of MTV’s “16 and Pregnant” show has been arrested for felony involuntary manslaughter in Floyd County.

Now 33, Whitney Purvis is charged with supplying the drug “tranq” to a man named John Harris, leading to his overdose in February.

Tranq is a mixture of fentanyl and the veterinary anesthesia xylazine.

She was also charged with two misdemeanors including possession with intent to distribute.

Purvis’s arrest comes just a little over a month after her teen son died about a month ago from natural causes.



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